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Approximately 46 percent of adults are health illiterate, meaning they find it difficult to read, comprehend and use health information. Patients' misunderstanding of health information and treatment decisions is estimated to cost the U.S. $73 billion.
U.S. Faces the Growing Challenges of an Aging Population
Although the number of elderly individuals needing healthcare will continue to increase—inflating its cost—companies like Right at Home in Falls Church, VA can lower healthcare costs by providing care in the home, rather than a costlier long-term care facility, all the while maintaining the senior’s independence.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Right at Home is celebrating Valentine's Day by offering a free online care assessment.
Sandwich Generation Survival Tips
If you are raising children while caring for your elderly parents in Falls Church, VA, then you definitely are. You probably feel caught in the middle; hence, the name “sandwich.”
House Calls Are Making a Comeback
A new federal program called the Independence at Home Demonstration, created by the Affordable Care Act, will test the effectiveness of providing healthcare to thousands of chronically ill Medicare patients in their own homes, allowing them to remain there instead of potentially entering long-term care facilities.
Slowing the Ravages of Age in Falls Church, VA
With aging, senescent cells build up in the body and produce harmful chemicals, which can lead to tissue inflammation and underlying ills such as diabetes, dementia and hardening of the arteries. Only 5 percent or less of an older adult’s total cells are senescent, but these inactive cells can cause extensive problems.
Drug Reactions in Older Adults
Medications help prevent and treat illness and disease, but increasingly among seniors in Falls Church, VA and around the nation, certain medications are causing adverse drug reactions.
Beating More Than Winter Blues in Falls Church, VA
Common SAD symptoms include loss of energy, appetite changes, social withdrawal, weight changes, sluggish movement, irritability, increased sleep and hopelessness.
Beating More Than Winter Blues in Sarasota, FL
Common SAD symptoms include loss of energy, appetite changes, social withdrawal, weight changes, sluggish movement, irritability, increased sleep and hopelessness.
Shake Up Your Family Tree!
Genealogy research can be daunting, as many family lines can prompt just as many questions.
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